HCM City is famous for different goods of peddling, such as selling phở (noodles served with beef or chicken) and coffee. — VNS Photo Việt Thanh

Algerian-French artist Mustapha Boutadjine presented his portrait of late President Hồ Chí Minh to the Vietnam Embassy in France on October 11.

Spirit, the first Depeche Mode studio album since 2013, will come out in the first half of 2017 with the group announcing a 32-city, 21-country tour across Europe starting in May.

A collection of porcelain products by 35 Japanese artists will be on display this Friday (october 14) at the Japanese Pottery: The Rising Generation from Traditional Japanese Kilns exhibit at the HCM City Exhibition House this week. 

Zumba Saigon and Saigon Outcast will host a party called “Party in Pink” on October 22 to raise funds for breast cancer in Việt Nam.

VinGallery will organise a free networking event “Bring Your Own” on October 21 for the creative community in HCM City.

The British Council will present British singer and songwriter Rukhsana Merrise at the  SOUL Live Project on October 20.

Indika Saigon will host a soul concert with Adrienne Mack-Davis, a classically trained singer and composer from New York, on October 15.

More than two hundreds international volunteers who flew to Việt Nam from different countries in the world including New Zealand, Australia, Japan, the US, Singapore and Hong Kong, spent a week building houses for poor community in two coummunes Hương Nha and Xuân Quang of the Phú Thọ province’s Tam Nông district.